Look up: yard

1. Yard
   Slang for one billion dollars. Used particularly in currency trading, e.g. for Japanese yen since on billion yen only equals approximately US$10 million. It is clearer to say, ' I'm a buyer of a yard of yen,' than to say, 'I'm a buyer of a billion yen,' which could be misheard as, 'I'm a buyer of a million yen.'
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2. yard
   [Noun] Plural form: yards. A unit of length equal to 91.4 centimetres or 36 inches.
   Example: I'm very lucky as I live 200 yards from the beach.
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3. Yard
   Lengths: 3 feet. Length of man's pace. Man's reach from nose to finger tip.
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4. yard
   [n] - a unit of length equal to 3 feet 2. [n] - a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) 3. [n] - an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines 4. [n] - the e...
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5. Yard
   (US Currency and Slang) - 100 dollars.
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6. Yard
   Spar supporting the top of a four sided sail, like a gaff but with part of the spar passing across the mast.
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7. Yard
   Currency market term for one thousand million units of a... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/yard.htm?id=13079&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of yard'>more</a>
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8. Yard
   A billion. It can refer to anything, volume or value...more on Yard
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9. Yard
   The Imperial Standard yard was defined in the British system of units as a standard unitof length. The foot was defined as one third of a yardThe abbreviation of yard is yd.Conversions1 yard=3 feet1 yard=36 inches1 yard=0.9144 m1 fathom=2 yardsThe U.S. yard before 1 July 1959 was 0.91440183 metre.tt...
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10. Yard
    Slang: House, home turf. Or to mean back home in Jamaica: ' back-a-yard' -Usage: 'I'm hitting yard now man, that long man' - Other terms Crib
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11. Yard
    Yard: In length, 3 feet or 36 inches or, metrically, 91.44 centimeters. The yard, along with the foot and inch, are English creations to which the USA has stubbornly clung. The yard was originally a unit of measurement of land and was about 5 meters (now termed a rod). In the 14<sup>th</sup...
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12. yard
    an open rail car stabling area,often combined with other functions such as shunting,train formation and maintenance Category: Transport • a storage area for equipment or raw materials Category: Technical and industry in general
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13. Yard
    Yard noun [ Middle English yerd , Anglo-Saxon gierd , gyrd , a rod, stick, a measure, a yard; akin to OFries. ierde , Old Saxon gerda , Dutch garde , German gerte , Old High German gartia , ...
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14. Yard
    Yard noun [ Middle English yard , yerd , Anglo-Saxon geard ; akin to OFries. garda garden, Old Saxon gardo garden, gard yard, Dutch gaard garden, German garten , Old High German garto ga...
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15. Yard
    Yard transitive verb To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
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16. Yard
    Yard noun (Zoology) A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
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17. yard
    1. A rod; a stick; a staff. 'If men smote it with a yerde.' (Chaucer) ... 2. A branch; a twig. 'The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain Destroyed hath the green in every yerd.' (Chaucer) ... 3. A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. ... 4. A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six...
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18. yard
    noun an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
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19. yard
    noun a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); `they opened a repair yard on the edge of town`
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20. yard
    pace noun a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
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21. yard
    curtilage noun the enclosed land around a house or other building; `it was a small house with almost no yard`
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22. yard
    noun an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
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23. Yard
    • (n.) A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc. • (v. i.) A branch; a twig. • (n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard. • (n.) An inclosure within wh...
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24. yard
    (from the article `British Imperial System`) ...Winchester, after the ancient capital of Britain, where the 10th-century Saxon king Edgar the Peaceable kept a royal bushel measure and quite ... ...ordinance entitled `Assize of Weights and Measures` defined a broad list of units and standards so successfully that it remained in...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/y/4
    
    
25. Yard
    Slang for one billion currency units. Used particularly in currency trading, e.g., for Japanese yen since one billion yen equals approximately US$10 million. It is clearer to say, 'I`m a buyer of a yard of yen,' than to say, 'I`m a buyer of a billion yen,' which could be misheard as 'I`m a buyer of a million yen.'
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